MEDIA ADVISORY

For Immediate Release
January 16, 2025

CONTACT:
Dede Laugesen, Executive Secretary,
Committee on the Present Danger: China, [email protected]

 The Witkoff-Biden-Hamas Ceasefire:

Will the CCP and America’s Other Enemies
be the Principal Beneficiaries?

Thursday, January 16, 2025
2:00 – 3:15 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON, D.C.—President-elect Trump’s designated special envoy for the Middle East, Steven Witkoff, has no official portfolio just yet. He seems, nonetheless, to have materially contributed to a disastrous ceasefire accord between Israel and Hamas, the designated terrorist group that murderously attacked her on October 7^th – one with whose toxic repercussions the second Trump administration will be stuck contending.

Secretary of State Tony Blinken implicated the Trump emissary directly with his comment to MSNBC that, “I think Steve Witkoff has been a terrific partner in this.” In fact, it is pretty clear that without Witkoff, such a deal would not have happened, certainly not at this time nor on these appalling terms.

After all, instead of securing Trump’s objectives of liberating all the hostages and assuring Israel’s victory over her enemies, and ours, Witkoff went to work helping the Biden administration achieve its major objectives. Those have been from October 7^th on: 1) assuring the survival of Hamas; 2) denying Israel a strategic victory; and 3) destroying the premiership of Benjamin Netanyahu.

Witkoff was injected into the negotiations by Bret McGurk, a “Deep State” Biden official who has spearheaded the catastrophic strategy of strengthening the Iranian regime and undermining Israel that resulted in the war now raging across the Mideast. Trump’s envoy promptly “went native.” Under the insidious influence of McGurk and Blinken, Witkoff evidently perceived his role to be the man who would broker the ceasefire deal. He did so by transforming the President-elect’s laudable threat to have “all hell break loose” if Hamas did not release the hostages before he took office into a demand for Israel’s capitulation via extracting concessions that are neither in her interest nor Mr. Trump’s. And for whose consequences the Trump administration has been set up to take the fall.

The next Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC) webinar from 2-3:15 p.m. ET on Thursday, January 16^th, will examine the terms of the resulting Witkoff-Biden-Hamas ceasefire; its implications for Israel, the region, and U.S. interests; and the benefit likely to be drawn from the carnage sure to ensue by the Chinese Communist Party’s Xi Jinping – who appears to have greenlighted the conflagration initiated on October 7, 2023 – and Xi’s regional allies, including Iran, Turkey, Qatar and their proxies.

We will also examine a factor that may have contributed to the perverse role Steven Witkoff played in these negotiations: his past business dealings with and seeming submission to Qatar, whose leader, Sheikh Mohammed, he said was “doing God’s work at that negotiating (sic).”

HOW: Register at PresentDangerChina.org.

WHAT: A CPDC Webinar | “The Witkoff-Biden-Hamas Ceasefire: Will the CCP and America’s Other Enemies be the Principal Beneficiaries?”

WHEN: 2:00 – 3:15 pm ET, Thursday, January 16, 2025

WHO:

• Moderator: Frank Gaffney, President, Institute for the American Future; Vice Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China

Participants:

• Dr. David Wurmser, Senior Analyst, Center for Security Policy, former naval intelligence officer, former assistant for Middle East affairs to the National Security Advisor and Vice President of the United States
  • Topic: “What Has Witkoff Wrought: The Terms of a Victorious Israel’s Surrender to Hamas”
• Lee Smith, author, “The Disappearing President: Trump, Truth Social and the Fight for the Republic,” and columnist for Tablet Magazine
  • Topic: “The Implications of the Ceasefire Deal for Israel and U.S. Vital Interests”
• Daniel Greenfield, Executive Vice President, David Horowitz Freedom Center; author, “Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers Fight Against the Left”
  •  Topic: “Obama-Biden’s Subversion of Trump’s Mideast Agenda 2.0: Not What America Voted For, Again, in November 2024”
• Trevor Loudon, Senior Fellow, Institute for the American Future; filmmaker; essayist; podcaster; and author, “Enemies Within” and “Comrade Prime Minister: Anthony Albanese’s 40-Year Alliance with Australian Communism” 
  • Topic: “Captured Elites: Steve Witkoff and the Phenomenon of Foreign Powers’ Subverting Americans”

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CONTACT:  Dede Laugesen, Executive Secretary, Committee on the Present Danger: China, [email protected]

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